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ST PETERSBURG BOWL
Tuesday, December 20th @ 8:00 p.m.
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FIU (8-4) VS MARSHALL (6-6)
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Rushing
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Passing
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Points
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TO’s
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ST
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A.O.R
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| FIU |
148 |
215
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25
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1.9
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90.5 |
| MARSHALL |
107
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220
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18
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2.3
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92.5 |
| First meeting. After winning the SBC LY FIU was the coaches pick to repeat so the 3rd place finish was a disappointment. The 8 reg ssn wins was still the best in Golden Panther history. MU is pleased just to get to the postssn after not much hype in the pressn. FIU HC Cristobal won his 1st and only bowl gm LY beating Toledo 34-32 in the Little Caesars Bowl. MU HC Holliday is coaching his 1st bowl and the Herd are 6-2 in bowls winning their last in ‘09. FIU was 1-3 vs bowl caliber squads being outscored 24-20 and outgained 394-294 while MU was 2-5 also being outscored (38-17) and outgained (466-343). Both played Louisville and UCF with FIU going 2-0 (+7 ppg, -34 ypg) and MU (-3 ppg, -92 ypg). FIU went 4-2 on the road TY while MU was 2-5. FIU has just 4 Sr st’rs but fields 17 upperclassmen. MU has 10 Sr st’rs but just 13 upperclassmen. Cristobal took over this FIU program in 2007. He deserves credit after getting the Panthers to a 2nd straight bowl. It is now Doc Holliday who in his 2nd ssn took Marshall to a bowl and he did so by playing a much tougher sked. Five of Marshall’s losses were to bowl tms and the only other gm they lost was at UCF, vs a tm that was the CUSA Champ in ‘10. This fierce competition throughout the ssn will give them an edge here vs a tm which played one of the 5 weakest skeds in CFB. |
PHIL’S FORECAST: MARSHALL 24 FIU 23
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Every week I will post my forecasts of all the games involving Top 25 teams. As usual, it includes my computer’s projected box score for each game. Last week the Top 25 Forecasts went 15-1 (94%) and so far this season I am 205-48 (81%).
Last year the Top 25 forecasts went 205-60 (77%)! On the bottom of the forecasts, I have also listed some Upset Specials for this week.
#1 LSU vs #12 GEORGIA
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Rushing
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Passing
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Points
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TO’s
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ST
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| GEORGIA |
100 |
170
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16
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2.6
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| LSU |
170
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145
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30
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2.3
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LAST 14 YEAR MATCHUPS
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Georgia Dome, Atlanta. UGA leads the recent series 6-3 (L20Y). Both tms have been ranked in the Top 20 in each of the L/6 meetings. UGA is the only tm in the SEC that LSU HC Les Miles does not have a winning record against (1-2) but the Tigers did win the L/meeting in ‘09, 20-13 as #4 LSU benefitted from a controversial celebration pen on WR AJ Green which set up their GW TD (:46). This will be the 3rd meeting between these two tms in the SEC Champ gm as they split the prev 2 with LSU winning 34-13 in ‘03 and UGA winning 34-14 in ‘05. These two have six common opp’s TY and have had similar results with LSU going 6-0 outscoring foes on avg 38-7 (+192 ypg) while UGA is also 6-0 outscoring foes 27-12 (+184 ypg). LW LSU capped their best reg ssn in schl hist with a 41-17 win over #3 Ark as they finished SEC play 8-0 for the 1st time (trailed 14-0 w/6:00 left in 2Q). QB Jefferson has now played every meaningful snap for 3 str gms (155 ypg, 66%, 3-1 ratio L/3) and AA DB Mathieu was the star again with 8 tkls, 2 FF, 1 FR and a 92 yd PR TD in the 2Q that turned the momentum. The Bulldogs are also off a key win over rival GT, 31-17 and have now won 10 str gms for the first time S/’82 despite playing w/out their top 2 RB’s the last couple of wks. QB Murray is avg 225 ypg (61%, 32-10, TD schl rec’d) while super frosh RB Crowell, despite battling inj for most of the yr, leads with 832 (4.8) despite only 7 sts. The UGA D has been the story as they lead the SEC in sks (32) which is remarkable considering they had only 1 in the first 3 gms comb. off (LSU #13-15) and def (LSU #2-5) are basically even but LSU has the large ST’s edge (#19-81). This one could come down to the wire but it’s tough going against the Tigers who have met every challenge TY. LSU books their ticket to nearby New Orleans for the National Champ game.
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PHIL’S FORECAST: LSU 27 GEORGIA 20
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